A former worker at that day care said violations have been going on for years.

Police are still investigating exactly what caused the fatal crash, but state investigators now say that van had too many children on board and not enough seat belts to go around.

One woman was killed, another was seriously injured and 14 children were taken to the hospital.

A former employee, who did not want to be identified, said she saw it coming.

"I always knew that something was going to go wrong. I'm just sad and disappointed that people had to get hurt in the process," the former employee said.

For the former employee of Heavenly Angels Child Care, June's deadly crash involving one of the day care's vans was sadly, not shocking.

"I wasn't surprised because she put no effort into making sure the children were going to be safe," the former employee said.

And now, a state investigation backs her up.

The report stated, "14 children and two staff were riding in a van suitable for a maximum of 15 occupants."

Several children were, "not properly restrained in car seats and booster seats," and two of them were thrown from the van when it slammed into a tree.

The report quoted a police officer as saying, "he was sure that children were doubled up in seats and observed three or four children seated in the back seat of the van were sharing one lap belt."

The report also notes the previous history of similar safety violations at Heavenly Angels and cited a prior pledge from the owner, Lavonia Lewars, "I now make sure that the maximum allowed, 13, is transported on van. I will monitor on a daily basis."

That pledge has now been permanently broken.

"If we had 13 kids on a van, I'd say two or three of them had on seat belts," the former employee said.

The woman said it's not that seat belts weren't worn, it's that they weren't even there.

"It didn't have a seat belt to restrain them. She didn't put no maintenance into those vans to make sure those children were going to be secure," the former employee said

She also claimed the day care's vans were routinely overloaded with kids.

"Any way that she could cut a corner, she did," the former employee said.

She says Lewars, who is also accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in state child care funding, was motivated by just one thing.

"Money. It was always about the money for her. It was never the children," the former employee said.

The state report also found other violations, including the day care's failure to immediately notify parents of the accident, and the lack of any paperwork available to emergency personnel to help identify the children who were on board the van.

Lewars shut down all three Heavenly Angels locations just days after that accident.